Monthly Archives: July 2015

On July 20th 2015, a new update for Visual Studio 2013 by Microsoft became available for download.

Visual Studio 2013 is an integrated development environment from Microsoft with a comprehensive collection of developer tools and services, used to create apps, as well as web sites and web services.

The latest update features cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes to enhance and expand both Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 to support the latest software development innovations for building and managing modern apps.

Here are some changes:

Cloud-based load testing from Azure datacenters worldwide – allows you to perform cloud-based load testing from any of the supported Azure datacenters

Current iteration query token – allows you to run queries with the @currentIteration on Visual Studio Online or Visual Studio Foundation Server

Team Project Rename support for Local Workspaces – allows you to update local workspaces after a team project is renamed

On July 20th 2015, the new Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 by Microsoft became available to download.

This release is a big step to bring the productivity of these products to any developer working on any kind of application, while delivering a new level of innovation in the productivity.

Visual Studio 2015 is an integrated development environment from Microsoft with a comprehensive collection of developer tools and services, used to create apps, as well as web sites and web services.

The Visual Studio family has expanded over the years:

Visual Studio Community – a free for non-enterprise development, fully -featured, and extensible IDE for creating modern applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as web applications and cloud services

Visual Studio Online – services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software – for any language, all in a single package

Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 highlights

Innovation in productivity

Debugging and Diagnostics – unified debugging and profiling into single Diagnostics Tool window; with PrefTips you can get performance information right in your code

Code editing and Refactoring – C# and VB developers can use the new Roslyn-based tooling, including Light Bulbs that pro-actively suggest potential fixes or code refactoring tooling; with code analyzers it is possible to customize warnings and suggestions delivered inside the editor; added XAML editor

Programming Languages – this new release includes the final version of C# 6 and Visual Basic 14 and improved support for C++ 11/14/17 together with TypeScript 1.5, F# 4.0 and tools for Python and dozens of other languages

PhpStorm 9, the new major release of JetBrain’s professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!

PhpStorm 9 is a cross-platform IDE for PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Less, CoffeeScript, and many other languages. Recent release of PhpStorm 9 brings us improvements and bug fixes. We shall look closely on them below.

PHP language and editing experience

Advanced code understanding – including:

Advanced PHP type inference

Parameter refactoring

Numerous new inspections and intentions

Support for persistent language injections

Postfix code completion – helps to reduce backward caret jumps

Partial PHP 7 support

Other PHP related enhancements – including:

Color settings for brackets, braces and parentheses

Ability to use PHP surrounds for HTML in PHP files

Improved structure view for PHP

Formatting, constructor and PHPDoc improvements

Support for fluent setters creation

Separate PHP constructor editable template

New debugging experience

Inline debugger for PHP – all live debugging data are now shown directly in the editor

Debugging workflow – new features include:

Import from Deployment action

Enhanced debugger config validation

PJP servers config shared on project level

php.ini can be opened from settings

Remote development

Remote edit – individual files can be opened directly from the remote host without adding / downloading them to the local project

Remote tools via remote PHP interpreters – allows you to run your application and tools on a production-like environment

Microsoft announced that on July 20th 2015, there will be a final release of Visual Studio 2015, .NET Framework 4.6 and Team Foundation Server 2015.

Visual Studio 2015 is a long expected release, which will include multi-platform creation of apps for Windows, Android, iOS, as well as creation of web applications and cloud services, and more. It also offers a wide range of tools to increase and ease the productivity of developers, like diagnostics tools, integrated editors, debuggers and profiles, plus thousands of extensions from PHP to gaming.